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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Goodness
Bible
Jesus
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
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It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
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Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
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My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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